Improvement in shoes



JOHN H.HUR,D. Shoes.

Patented Apri|-2, 1872.

PATENT JOHN H.l HURD, OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

VIMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,299, dated April 2, 1872.

To allpcrsons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. HURD, of Dover, ofthe county of Stratford and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful-Improvement in Shoes; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 is a top view. Figs. 2 and 3 are opposite side elevations of a shoe made in my improved manner.

The upper of this shoe is in two pieces of leather, A B, these forms being represented in Figs. 4 and 5. The part B, sewed to the part A in manner as shown, constitutes a ily for the instep-opening of the shoe, and is provided with straps D D, arranged-as represented, to engage with buckles E E, fastened to the next adjacent part of the upper.

The auxiliary portion B at the lower part of the instep-opening is extended over and upon the outer surface of the portion A, as shown at a, and is secured to such part, as seen at b.

The remainder of the part B, where sewed at A, is extended against the inner side thereof, the same being as shown at c d e, the sewing being represented at f. The part B is slit or notched, as shown at gin Fig. 5, in order to enable it to be lapped over and under the part A, in manner as represented and described.

By lapping the part B under the part A there will be no projection of the leather to impede the drawing of the shoe upon the foot 'of a person. By lapping the part B over the The shoe upper, composed of thel parts A B, formed as represented, and having the part B lapped over and under the part A in mauner and sewed thereto as set forth.

JOHN H. HURD.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

